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Army ORDERs-Capt. VIM. Fletcher, Goth in
fantry, having served more than forty years, is,
at his own request, by direction OF the President,
placed on the retired list from GATE. First Lieut..
Alexander NJ Patch, 4th cavalry, having been
found incapacitaUed for active service, has been
granted leave OF absence until further orders.
Capt II. G. Leitch, I'd artillery, has been granted
Powell 9th infantry, granted four months leave.
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nv EEkS CO., AuctiOneers.
w 637 Louisiana ave.
Opposite City Post Office.

POSITIVE CLOSING SALE OF FINE HARNESS,
SINGLE AND DOUBLE. HANDMADE GOODS;
THINKS. FANCY LEATHER GOODS, 9ENLs'
AND LADIES SADDLES, NETS, LAP-ROBES
ROOMS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER FIRST. AT
TEN O'CLOCK A. NJ 1t
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Appointments by the President.
The President to-day made the following ap-
pOintments:
s. S. Carlisle of Louisiana, to be mlnister-resi-
dent and consul general TO Bolivia
Jas. c. Qulgge, OF Pennsy wanna, to be consul OF
the United States at Port Stanley and st. Thomas,
Ontario.
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PIANOS AND ORGANS

CmcKrn1Na AND HARpNax PrASos
To rent and SOLD monthly Payments
Pianos repaired stored. tuned, and moved
". q. NETZERoTT q co.
au23 903 In. ave-. near 9th St
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PROPOSED TAX REFORM.
Assessor Fish Suggests . Number 81
ChRngcSs

HIS ANNUAL REPORT TO THE CORRESPONDENTS
RECOMMENDS AN ANIMAL ASSESSMENT AND PER.
NANENT BOARD OF kSsEssoRS-THe GROWTH or
THE CrrY-HE rHINKs THE PERSONAL TAX Law
SHOULD BE REPEALED
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@. l.. Wnp & Bios.

700 7th st NV. Established 1874
hraiiich aud Bach ana other nne lialos-new and
second-hand-st g-eat bargains for until October
Lest.
Pianos and Organs moved, exchanged or rented
Tuning aud repairing honestly doua
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The worst feature OF the whole case is that
charges OF "trading" with the old party leaders,
and OF bargain and sale, are flung against each
other Dy the three factions. Facts came to light
in the early part OF this year. In evidence OF the
accusation that certain managers" OF Mr..
Georges last campaign. who are set In the business
Of manayeinent, traffcked for votes with both ne.
publican and democratic candidates and 1t Is Ger.
tain that their opportunities now are far greater
than they were then. The union labor party Is 10.
tested with blacklegs OF the same breed, as every
man acquainted with our local politics knows; and
OF the three factions the socialists alone, who are
mainly Germans are free from the stigma OF trad.
ing or dickeriLg The fact is that disappointed mer
cenaries OF the Old party are always on ths look.
out for such prey as Ii offered In third partteA ana
especially in the labor party and more especially
after such experiences as those OF last November,
when the labor party became an object or interest
to all politic10na The greatest danger for labor
politics Is that OF being wrecked BY such MERGE
narieS
This brief survey OF the labor neld, as seen from
New York. In the light OF this years strikes and
the decline In the principal labor organizations
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200 to 204 o at. and
1928 aud 1928 I'd
stn.w. b. Ia. .4&6rs IL, 800
22ll to 222g 10th St
NV, b. h.. 5rs -.-.l3, 900
2, 3. 4. }, and u 18th st.
road ................11,300
1872 20 1ss3 E st.
1901 to 1903 L ST.
NV, III, 6rs. 5000
S27 I'D st. n. W, b.
si Z; to 2i30 h st,
NV, b.h-, 4rs. 5000
1911 ID St NV. T. H.. y
Observation-Disclosures 0.OOO
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". WILLOUGHBY,
45S Louisiana avenue,
HENRY f. DAVIS, r....
ADO LOUISIANA avenue, AA0ss@"''
JESSE H. WILSON,
audi 0O2 Pelillsy INaiIla avel ue NV,

OFFICE OF DANENHOWER son,
" Real Estate aud Insurance Brokers'
Ills street northwest
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NOR SAIL.
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books For full list call office for bulletin issued on
Tie LIST and 18th. tsu3OI 1HUS. T. NAOGAMAN-
t,Ub SALE-TWELVE~ ROOM HOUSE ON 18TH
ST.. bet. q and al mod imps; lot 2S1sIlOO; Will
&c tfered at a bsr<ain for three days only.
aUSO-2t JOHN L NOIS1ON, SIS 81.
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BUSINESS CHANCES.

NOR SALE-GROCEKY AND PROVISION STORE
IL In a good aud thriving neigh Lood il northeast
cton city the STORE fixtures, stock first class
Address W II, Star Once. au31
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FARM REFORMS.
Advantages to Be Derived from Planning
the Years Work in Winter.

Advantages to Be Derived from Planning
the Years Work in Winter.
We ought to learn to farm better
every year. What we learn from our
own experience, and what we can
learn from the experience of others, if
we care to take the trouble, should
enable us to improve in some respects.
There is, of course, something in
being willing to learn. If in spite of
our own experience we still insist upon
following the old plan, when we know
from experience that a change can be
made with profit, look over the work
done during the past year, see what
the results were, and then plan the
work for another year with this knowl-
edge before us. If you have kept ac-
counts of the different farm crops, you
know what have realized profit and
what have proved failures, and from
this you can plan out next year s work
to better advantage. If no accounts
have been kept, make up your mind to
begin at once. You can not tell, with
any accuracy, how much profit has
been derived, and from what source
obtained, unless you keep accounts,
and you really can not afford to farm
without knowing exactly what you are
clearing in business way. twill take
less time than you imagine. Any plan
that will show how much it costs to
raise crop and what it brings, will do.
Plan out as nearly as possible the
years work. If you have never plat
ted out the farm, take time to do it in
winter. Divide into convenient fields
and number, and in starting your ac-
counts give each page, and if you de-
eide what crops you will plant in each
field or plot, make memorandum of
it. Considerable time can be saved in
the spring by knowing just what you
expect to do, and what plan you ex-
pect to follow to carry it out.
The largest part of the hard work
can be done now, so that when spring
opens no time will be lost in trying to
decide what you will do and what you
consider to be the best plan.
If you have carefully tried one plan
that has not been as profitable as it
should, and you have used all reason
able pains to secure profit, try some
thing different. There is no policy in
following the same plan year after
year, when you fail to derive the profit
Won should. inst because it is the way
you have always been accustomed to
following. 1t is far more sensible to
own that we are wrong, and make
change, than to follow out our mis-
takes when experience has shown that
it is not best.
1t requires good management to Sc
cure the most profit from the farm, and
we may very often spend time in study
ing and planning ahead, and this time
can be best spared during the winter.
a. j. Shepherd, an Western Ployman.
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HIS ONLY FRIEND.


He crouched upon the pauper mound
Where his loved masters bones were laid
In dumb despair he gazed around
One shaggy paw half-fearful laid
Upon the earth so cold, SO gray,
Where his one friend, his master, lay.
He whined and howled, his grief to tell;
His face was pite0us to behold;
And lol the rain IN torrents fell,
While long and loud the thunder rolled.
He did not mind the angry storm
That beat upon his trembling form.
Who slept below? A worthless scamp,
An idle outcast, people said.
waif-a stray-a ragged tramp,
Who gladly shared his crust of bread
With the fond brute, his only friend,
Who lived to guard him, and defend.
They had been comrades in distress;
Misfortune marked them both its own;
and now he missed that rude caress,
How cold, how dark, the world had grown
He dropped his head, his eyes grew dim;
Life held no ray OF light for him.
He sought one plying glance in vain,
For dainty ladies shrank away
Held back their skirts in cold disdain;
Rough urchins kicked him as he lay.
They needed not his grief for he
Was but a cur Of low degreeI
" Let's drown the bruter' the urchins cried.
One last despairing howl he gave,
Rolled over on his weary side,
And died upon the lowly grave,
Unpraised, unwept, as if to prove
How well faithful brute can Lowell
Fanny Forester, In Chambers Journal.
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Destroying Soul and Body.

Alcohol does not destroy its victims,
in most cases, suddenly, as in the dead
sleep of profound intoxication or in
the wild maniacal rawlings of delirium
tremens. By slow and unmeasured
steps, in most cases by inducing cirr-
hosts of the liver, Bright's disease of
the kidneys, anasarca, ascites, rheu-
matism, rheumatic govt, detective
vision, fatty degeneration of the heart,
arteries and muscular system, which
finally end in paralysis, imbecility and
insanity, alcohol encircles its victims
IN irremediable and everlasting ruin.
Without doubt alcohol occasions vast
amount of disease over the face of this
mighty Republic, and carries death,
destruction, dishonor and shame into
thousands of happy homes. Alcohol
is at the bottom of large proportion
of the crimes committed in the United
States. Alcohol dethrones reason and
poisons the fountains of sentiment and
morals, and is even more destructive
upon the moral and intellectual nature
than the physical organism of man.
~ T. Pharmaceutical Record.
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SALOON COMPANIONS.

Selfishness and Heartlessness Exhibited
What the Saloon Does for the Poor
Man.
Tho saloon of the poor man is usual
ly marked by vulgar decoration or
careless squalor. 1t offers him more
warmth and better shelter, perhaps,
than he can get at home. 1t appeals
to his most selfish feelings. 1t tickles
his self-indulgenee. He finds there,
too, an excitement, u companionship,
which are seductive. But what is the
sociability encountered at the saioonP
1t is sham, like all the alleged pleas
urc obtainable from the institution.
Saloon friendship is Dead Sea apple.
The men who strike hands with one an
other as comrades and boon companions
will stand by while one of their num-
ber goes headlong to destruction; will
observe with stolid passivity the VIC
TINS advance from one fatal symptom
to another; will register his successive
downward steps, marking in cold
blood his loss of one holdfast after an
other; and when ruin, complete and
irreversible, has concluded the drama,
they will turn away and pursue their
own affairs. The truth is that the
spirit of the saloon is incompatible
with the termination or growth of
real friendship, as it is with any good
thing. Indeed, its influences and ten
denotes are so palpably and wholly
evil that any nation voluntarily adopt
ing such an institution, and accepting
it as part of the fixed order of things,
could hardly escape Manicheism but
for that curious aptitude of the aver
age human mind to Separate religious
beliefs from everyday experiences.
The lowering influences of the saloon
react directly and with energy upon the
poorest classes. The abuse of drink does
not necessarily or Immediately involve
personal degradation or personal priva-
ton among such as possess some prop
erty. But with those for whom sus-
tanned sobriety can procure only mar
row suffi cheney, intemperance means
swift descent into discomfort and suffer-
ing. The poor man can not drink with
out falling behind in every thing. The
saloon not only deprives him of reason
and the full use of his faculties, it drives
him to the pawnshop with his few pos
sessions; it strips him, his wife and his
children of the clothing they need; il
bares the walls of his poor rooms; it
nnakac oil his material currOundinra
meaner and shabbier, at the same time
that it implants distaste for the steady
industry which is the one means of re-
demption. - George Frederic Parsons, irs
1FIo,,f;a HIo,fhJ,t
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out any draperies whatever in the back,
but simply hung in broad plaits, as witness
model No. 2, also from the design of the
one above referred to. With this skirt will
be worn a deep over-drapery, hemmed or
delicately embroidered or braided, and
draped across the front in easy, graceful
folds. En- suite is Louis Quinze jacket
with large double flaps at the side, a Topped
back arranged en- position and with Garrick
shoulder capes, shaped to match the flaps
on the jacket which opens over an en-
broidered waistcoat, and is garnished on
each side with large buttons of bronze and
enamel There is a rage in New York this
winter for fancy sleighing hoods of every
sort. First come the Russian hoods of seal,
bordered with fur, then follow the English
model Of fur-lined satin, which are
veritable protectors against tie singing
pinches of Jack Frost. The Normandy toque
is the most expensive, as it is made of sable
or seal skin. This has high peak on top
and pulls down over the ears exactly like a
mans cap c. d. f.
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TEMPERANCE READING.
The CURSE oF RUM.

We hear, until our hearts grow dumb.
OF all the ruin wrought by rum;
Men plead in prayer aid speech and song
Against this endless worldwide wrong;
While from ten thousand wretched homes
ceaseless wall of sorrow comes,
Where husbands, fathers, children, wives
Weep Ger dishonored, bighted lives,
Or gather round the hopeless graves
Where lie entombed runs ruined slaves
sad, funereal, endless train,
Who mourn their dead as doubly slain.
What curse in all this world OF woes
So wide and deep shadow throws?
What plague so dire pervades the earth
AS that which has from rum its BIRTH
War, famine, pestilence-a train
OF triple plagueS-have never slain.
Through all the woeful ages past
multitude of men so vast
AS that which makes the total sum
VI those who've lost their lives by rum
Inose plaques but steal mans mortal breath.
Jnls smltes him with the second death;m
Those make the body's grave their goal.
This kills the body and the soul:
Those stay where once the victim fell.
This digs his grave as deep as hell;
Those leave beyond all harm and loss,
A place for mercy's healing cross,
This for the man who by it fell
No object but the drunkard's hell.
o men who love our human kind!
Are We so careless, or so blind
That We will shield by voice and vote
This monster at the Nations throat,
And give him still stronger hold,
All for the cursed love of gold?
o justice, canst thou bend thy bow
From storm-clouds DER this scene of wos
And stay thy bolts nor smite the wrong
For human hands too old and strongf
o Thou who rulest over all!
And nearest whene'er Thy children call.
Come to our rescue, Father, come,
And stay this blighting curse of ruml
joel Slc1Ffz, d. d. in TegaDeraace Adpneess
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Mr.. Banks very soon succeeded in in
structing Miss Alice in the mysteries
OF bookkeeping, SO as to make her of
great assistance in the office; while the
other girls took such an interest in
their part of the work that the always
interesting store was doubly so now.
and attracted customers from near and
far.
Papa Jayne, having so many reliable
helpers, found he could leave the store
for an afternoon now and then, and
take mamma out to drive in the coun-
try, coming home at night refreshed
and joyful as boy. while he was the
envy of all his business friends who
were not fortunate enough to have four
fine, sensible daughters. Mamma
missed her girls from home, but oecu-
pied her time in experimenting won
derful and appetizing meals, to which
they did full justice. healthful and reg
ular work giving them capacities like
farmers az Alice said. The summer
passed rapidly, each girl having her
vacation of week in the country, and
the strike was thing of the past, when
one evening papa Jayne read, as they
sat around the lamp, in the pleasant
library:
Well, my girls, our business is out
OF danger now, and suppose you will
be thinking of leaving, so I'll have to
be looking up other clerks
" No indeed, papa said Alice, warm
ly; 1--WE shouldn't know what to do
now without regular work, and we
mean to stay with you as long as you
want u.s.
"Goodr' cried papa Jayne; Il was
terribly afraid you would leave. But
now, my dears, | shall take great pleas
ure in paying you regular wages for
regular work, SO from tomorrow your
pay begins"
Dear papa, we have been paid all
along" cried all his daughters, "by
seeing you SO happy, and by knowing
that we really are of some use in the
world And so the business was saved;
and who can say but what the girls
were saved, too?-Haddie Wise Andress,
IN Chicago Standard.
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"RELIEF" IN DRINK.
What Rum Really Doeg for the Poor N
and His Family.

What Rum Really D0eg for the Poor Man
and His Family.
Let us begin at the foundation, aud
trace the saloon through society. The
first fact to be noted it that the institu-
ton is planted most thickly where the
poorest people live. 1t has been alleged
by some philanthropists and penalogists
that poverty is in many instances the
cause OF drinking, and not the effect;
that men drink to forget their sorrows
and remember their misery no more.
No doubt there is some truth in this. In
digence, squalor. restitution, innutri-
ton, produce morbid conditions of BODY
and mind, probably reinforce inherited
tendencies to alcoholism, and move to
that desperation which seeks relief in
the oblivion either of death or drunk
enness. But, however true such con-
siderations may be, they can not affect
the obviouS fact that the influence OF
the saloon among the poor is wholly
mischievous. Even with those whose
case is almost desperate the effect of
resorting to this means of forgetfulness
is pernicious. The man who browns
memory at the saloon does not facili-
tate his subsequent proceedings. He
IS poorer, in worse health, less able
to confront difficulties ON the NOR
row. But one tendency in him is
strengthened, and that is the ten
dency to repeat the debauch.
The poor man who, being husband
and father, frequents the saloon runs
the risk OF betraying his most sacred
trusts. His home may be uncomfort-
able, his meals may be unsavory, but
the saloon can not improve his sur
roundings. On the contrary it absorbs
his scanty earnings, thus depriving
those dependent on him of the pit
lance of food and clothing he alone
is able to supply. The drinking hus-
band, too, often makes a drinking
wife. For the women among the poor
have most need of all the moral sup
port their husbands, fathers, brothers,
can bring them. Being physically
weaker, they are more liable to faint
under the heat and burden of the day;
and when they see them who should
be their staff and prop cravenly giving
away to despair and selfshly seeking
oblivion for himself, they are apt to
succumb to the pressure and to follow
the evil example.
Then the fate of the children is gen.
orally sealed. The saloon has orphaned
them. 1t will be henceforward their
school and training ground. 1t will
bring them up to be petty thieves, while
they are developing the muscle that is
TO qualify them for ruffianism; and
when they are old enough they will
fall naturally into some gang, if they
live in city, and become material for
professional criminals, loafers and
wrecks.-Ge0rge Frederic Parsons, in
atlantic Monthly.
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hardly new, as in the early winter season
they were thrust upon the trade with the
assurance that these most trying tints
would S'take' in America, the land of the
blonde and the home of the superlatively
fair. Not so, however, thus far These
artistic fabrics still lend refreshing and
delicate vernal look to the show windows,
but have fallen most noticeably short in
favor of sale, either in dress fabrics or
millinery uses. Gray, however, is trium-
plant, and all shades of this refined color,
dear to the hearts of all French women,
will be in high vogue next season
A Nineteenth-street designer of high
class novelties, has among his early spring
creations. q stylish gown modelled from a
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04

The most noted entertainer in Bos-
ton is Mrs. Clara Erskine Clement
Waters, the art writer. Her salon is
modelled after that of the famous Nine.
Recamier, and at her receptions it is
said that one is sure to meet all the So
cial lions of the day.-BQston Herald,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04

A YOUNG man, one of party of hunters
in Colorado, left camp to go out and set
trap He did not return in due time, and
search was made for him. 1t was six days
before he was found, and then it was seen
that in setting the trap both hands had
been caught in it, and thus he had been
held until he was frozen to DEATH Chicago
Herald
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French dress of
nuns gray faille
Franchise combined
with velvet of the
new, deep but brill
liant shade of Vene-
tan red, a color
now the rage in
Paris. The pattern
is illustrated above.
The plain velvet
underskirt is cren =
elated at the foot,
the blocks faced I'M
derneath with sat-
in of the exact
shade of the velvet.
The tunic portion
opens all the way
] down the front,
sshowing the red
jvelvet skirt be-
4 meath. The sides,
h 0 w e v err, are
caught together at
intervals with gray
satin ribbon bows,
and elaborate orna-
ments of silver and
plonab beads. The
4 n \ ,a1~4 -
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04

Ny idea is, that work done under
the influence of any kind of stimulant
is unhealthy work and tends to nc
yood.-Prof. John Stuart Bl0ckie.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04

IF a man wants to drown sorrow in
the bowl let him try bowl of water.
Bowls of liquor are already too full Of
sorrow.-N. O. Picayuaae.
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AS Good a Right as Man.

ga woman was picked up drunk on
the street last night and put in the
lookup" An announcement of that
kind always causes a shudder Some
way, we are accustomed to seeing men
drunk, falling on the street, being
pushed, carried or hauled to the
prison, and the very commences of it
keeps us from thinking much about it.
But to see a woman intoxicated, or
even to hear of it, excites us, shames
us, and starts us to ask anew what can
be done to save our highways from
such exposures. AS matter Of fact a
woman has as good a right to drink
and get drunk as man. There is no
reason in nature why she may not as
readily do so. Nor is there any reason
in society. If man becomes heart
break to his wife, his wife may become
heart-break to him. If he may cause
squalor in home that would other
wise be happy, she may carry to it the
same misery. And yet, instinctively,
because it is less common, and chiefly
because we SO honor the sex, we re-
volt from the spectacle of an inebriated
woman, and pronounce our curse upon
the habit that to either men or women
brings such disgrace. 1t is good sign
that the reeling and iabbering of
drunkenness produces growing dis
gust, for it shows a spirit that is less
81 "a IL, Al
lrings it about United Presbyterian.